This typical early 20th-century postcard claims to reveal poor Queen Katherine Howard, ‘captured’ on film in the Horn Room at the palace

There are two ghosts that are well known to haunt Hampton Court. They were both English Queens and wives of Henry VIII. One is Jane Seymour who died shortly after giving birth to Prince Edward, and the other is the shrieking ghost of Catherine Howard executed for adultery. However there is another who finds no peace, and her only downfall was loyalty to the royal family.

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